25/04/2017-01/05/2017 Mapping The Bing Maps team announced in its blog the release of new satellite imagery (a total of 3.67 million km²) in Turkey, Greece and Argentina in cooperation with DigitalGlobe. Nuno Caldeira describes how to improve road tagging using Mapillary horizontal imagery in JOSM. The Zoo tagging has …

18/04/2017-24/04/2017 Mapping Marc Gemis (Escada) explains the workflow he follows when he surveys an area to map on OpenStreetMap. Christoph Hormann provides new satellite images for mapping on his website imagico.de. The pictures show the North Sea in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, the Petschorasee coast in …

11/04/2017-17/04/2017 Mapping There is a discussion on the OpenStreetMap Forum about Bing rolling out new aerial imagery for Darmstadt, Germany. A question by wolfbert about grouping buildings and terrain of castles leads (automatic translation) to an amusing discussion. The results are on the wiki. Levente Juhász …

04/04/2017-10/04/2017 Mapping Walter Nordmann analysed the extent of the improper tagging landuse=farm, which has to be changed. His NoFarm-Map helps to discover such areas. Version 0.9.9 of Vespucci is now available! Simon Poole shares the news along with some details. User Rogehm brings up the discussion about the …

28/03/2017-03/04/2017 The OSM April fools of 2017 The map editor is now also available in a variant for companies with optimized look and feel. Mapping In an answer to a beginner’s question on the German forum, user Galbinus shows very succinctly, how to create a new roundabout using iD. User Polyglot shows how to get …

21/03/2017-27/03/2017 Mapping At the FOSSGIS conference, data privacy on OSM was discussed. Frederik Ramm summarizes (automatic translation) some relevant aspects in the German forum. There was also a brief discussion on Talk-de mailing list. Personally identifiable data, such as mapping activities, is still visible to …

14/03/2017-20/03/2017 Mapping The Costa Rican community photomapped the trails in the natural forest reserve of Bosque del Niño in Poás volcano. The Mexican OSM community proposes the use of the hashtag #CallesVioletas to visualize and map the public spaces. This is done by using an inclusive methodology that empowers …

07/03/2017-13/03/2017 Mapping User BushmanK writes about the quality of foreign names submitted under the name:<language_code>=* tag. An in-depth analysis is presented and suggestions on how to mitigate the issue. The Costa Rican community organises a tour (Feb & March event) to map national parks and volcanoes. This …

28/02/2017-06/03/2017 About us Dale Kunce accuses us of selective news coverage about HOT and points out the Validation Fridays. As barely 50% of the added data is validated till date, HOT hopes to have a quality gain and more feedback to the mappers, who are new mappers in many cases, through their initiative. March 8 …

21/02/2017-27/02/2017 About us The weeklyOSM team happily switched from Slack to the open source software Mattermost for internal communication. After tests conducted on framasoft’s framateam, a dedicated instance is now up and running thanks to FOSSGIS. Mapping Inspired by the German OSM-Blog Wochennotiz № 343, and a …